The Minister of Justice, Senator Mark Golding has sought to justify the multi- million dollar budget provided for the Tivoli Commission of Enquiry. We renew our call for the Ministry of Finance and/or the Ministry of Justice to publish the full details of the budget for this enquiry, We intend to summarise some of the arguments advanced and to question the rationale informing those considerations: The GOJ was intent on getting Commissioners and legal counsel of the highest integrity, professional competence and experience. That came at considerable costs, even after some amount of negotiation. This presumes that they are no Jamaicans being held in such high regard with the requisite professional competence and experience to chair the Commission. Consequently the GOJ had to look elsewhere to find a chairman who, apart from being suitably equipped, would not be perceived as being "tainted" by local partisan politics. We disagree fundamentally with that approach. ...